• uis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You are almost correct. But Putin doesn’t want Russia to be USSR, he wants to be in power entire his life and after death. He wants personal autocracy or dictatorship where KGB helps keep him and his oligarchs in power. Even war he started is a mean to throw a wall on people’s heads.

    People who want Russia to be USSR do it not because they want to be “powerful and feared”, but because in USSR there was decent healthcare outside of Moscow, school near their home wasn’t closed by Sobyanin and there was no war with Ukraine. Because in USSR there was “peace to world” instead of “we will turn world to radioactive ash”(AFAIR Kiselev’s quote, Putin’s propagandist), “glory to science and production” instead of warmongering and destruction.

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      1 year ago

      You are almost correct. But Putin doesn’t want Russia to be USSR,

      He wants rule the countries that used to be part of the USSR. He wants them to be part of Russia. He wants Russia to be a serious military threat to the rest of the planet like the USSR was.

      he wants to be in power entire his life and after death.

      Putin wants to achieve what Stalin did and surpass him in terms of having a stranglehold on power in Russia.

      People who want Russia to be USSR do it not because they want to be “powerful and feared” but because in USSR there was decent healthcare outside of Moscow

      In some places. In other places they tested nuclear bombs in your backyard, and you were totally fucked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site#Health_impacts

      I did not mean that Putin wants the standard of living in Russia to be like it was under the USSR. I meant that Putin wants Russia to have the presence that the USSR had on the international stage and corresponding respect.

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        1 year ago

        You are telling me how he wants to be perceived, not who he is - old KGB dictator who forgot to take his medications. The only things he competing in with Stalin: cult of personality and political assasinations.

        Interesting article…

        exposed to the fallout between 1949 and 1956

        1956 is 3 years after Stalin’s death.

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          1 year ago

          You are telling me how he wants to be perceived, not who he is

          Presumably, you already know who he is.

          The only things he competing in with Stalin: cult of personality and political assasinations.

          I would probably add paranoia.